![]() ![]() You can customize the pre-made dock or create your own. ![]() Undocking restores the panel to its original size. This brings up the LaunchBar Commander settings window, that you can use to customize the dock. Right-click the tray icon and select preferences. Left-click on the tray icon to access the shortcuts that were on the dock are available from the tray. Hitting the close button minimizes the program to the system tray. You can drag the docked panel to any of the four sides of the screen. One of the options includes the ability to dock the panel, i.e., place it on the edge of the screen. This has a few options to resize, center, rebuild the bar. Right-click inside the dock to view its context-menu. The program plays a sound when you click on a button which you can disable in the options. This is pretty useful for opening files quickly without having to navigate around in Explorer or opening Control Panel or the Start Menu. The Control Panel menu lists all the options available in Windows' namesake, the Documents menu displays links to files in your Documents folder, and so on. Clicking one of the buttons opens up a menu with the contents of the selected option. The Dock has 4 buttons: Control Panel, Documents, Start Menu and a Sample Menu. This is a floating panel, so you can drag it around the screen. A small panel titled "My First Dock" will open, click on the edges to resize it. Upon running it for the first time, you will be greeted by a message that says the program is donation ware (made by Mouser, a popular DonationCoder developer). A small thing perhaps, but I could never get used to it and was always distracted when all I wanted was to start a playlist and turn to work.LaunchBar Commander is a free application that's similar and offers a lot of customization options on top of that. I just need to press the standard Search shortcut ( ^␣), then start typing the name of any Playlist, Artist, Album, Song or Genre from my iTunes library and press ↩ to play whatever I want.Īlthough Alfred 2 can also play music, one first needs to launch iTunes (or rather a special Alfred player linked to iTunes) and only then select music. LaunchBar’s ability to play music was a decisive factor for me. ![]() Somehow it just does not work for me – I would like to see my answer after I clearly indicated that the equation is finished (of course, LaunchBar allows to copy it to the Clipboard and do some other operations). Now, Alfred 2 has a similar behavior, but the difference is that in LaunchBar pressing ↩ displays the answer in large type, whereas Alfred immediately (without ↩ being pressed) displays the answer in small type just beneath the equation. It is invaluable for simple quick calculations. When you activate LaunchBar and start typing numbers it works as a calculator. I know that something like Instant Send should be available in Alfred 2, but I could never find this function and was increasingly irritated by the sudden clumsiness of emailing files.
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